·The New York Times’ Dot Earth blog covers the Gates Summit[5] on family planning and discusses one of Berk’s old posts[6] on whether there is an unmet need for family planning.

·Marina Adshade has a couple of interesting posts (part 1[7], part 2[8]) examining the impact of the availability of online dating on how people search for a partner – interesting hypotheses about it increasing reservation values so much that people potentially become too picky – but cries out for an experiment or at least more empirical evidence.

·The boom in biostatistics[9] covered by Stanford Medicine – discusses issues like reducing false positive rates when dealing with massive numbers of tests like in gene arrays; and new approaches to automate clinical trials.

·If you want to see some of the newest research on migration and development, the recent fifth annual AFD/World Bank/CGD conference on migration and development is a good place to look – the program[10] and many of the papers[11] are now available online.